ANALYSIS: NASA awaits final design on supersonic X-plane

25 January, 2016

SOURCE: FlightGlobal.com

BY: Stephen Trimble

Washington DC

Back in 2012, NASA thought it had reached a breakthrough in a decades-long quest to design a “low-boom” supersonic aircraft. With leftover funding from the 2009 financial stimulus act, the agency commissioned Lockheed Martin and Boeing to separately develop preliminary designs and wind tunnel models of aircraft concepts.

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